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Martin Shaw

1875 - 1958 Topics: Time; Confessing Faith; God Glory of; God Power of; Time Composer of "PURPOSE" in Voices Together Martin F. Shaw was educated at the Royal College of Music in London and was organist and choirmaster at St. Mary's, Primrose Hill (1908-1920), St. Martin's in the Fields (1920-1924), and the Eccleston Guild House (1924-1935). From 1935 to 1945 he served as music director for the diocese of Chelmsford. He established the Purcell Operatic Society and was a founder of the Plainsong and Medieval Society and what later became the Royal Society of Church Music. Author of The Principles of English Church Music Composition (1921), Shaw was a notable reformer of English church music. He worked with Percy Dearmer (his rector at St. Mary's in Primrose Hill); Ralph Vaughan Williams, and his brother Geoffrey Shaw in publishing hymnals such as Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928). A leader in the revival of English opera and folk music scholarship, Shaw composed some one hundred songs as well as anthems and service music; some of his best hymn tunes were published in his Additional Tunes in Use at St. Mary's (1915). Bert Polman

Robert H. McCartney

1844 - 1895 Person Name: R. H. McCartney Topics: Christ Friendship of; Christ Sympathy of; Confession of Sin; Faith; Love To Christ; Waiting on God Composer of "[I could not do without thee, O Saviour]" in Alleluia

James Christopher Marks

1863 - 1946 Person Name: J. Christopher Marks Topics: Faith Confession of Composer of "MARTHINA" in The Psalter Born: 1863, Cork, Ireland. Died: October 13, 1946, New York City. Marks’ father (who had the same name) was organist and choir master at the Cork Cathedral for 43 years. James studied music under his father; his uncle, T. Osborne Marks, organist of Armagh Cathedral; and with Professor R. P. Stewart of Trinity College, Dublin. He received vocal training from Sims Reeves, whose special accompanist he was during Reeves’ final farewell tour in Ireland. Marks was organist and choir master at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Cork (1881-1902). In 1902, he emigrated to America and became the organist at St. Andrew’s Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1904, he became organist and choir director at the Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York, where he served until 1929. Marks received a Doctor of Music degree from New York University in 1908, served as president of the National Association of Organists in 1912 and 1913, and was an Associate of the American Guild of Organists. He wrote the cantata Victory Divine, the anthem The Day Is Past and Over (1888), and many other pieces. Sources: Benjamin, pp. 100-01 New York Times, October 15, 1946 http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/r/k/marks_jc.htm

Alexander B. Morton

Person Name: A. B. Morton Topics: Faith Confession of Arranger of "[Far as east from west is distant]" in Bible Songs

Claudia Faustina Lehman Mays

1892 - 1973 Person Name: Claudia Lehman Mays Topics: Confessing Faith; God Love of Arranger of "LOVE OF GOD" in Voices Together

Fred R. Anderson

b. 1941 Person Name: Frederick R. Anderson, 1941- Topics: Assurance; Commandments; Confession of Sin; Faith; Forgiveness; Guidance; Mercy of God; Obedience; Sin Paraphraser of "How blest are those whose great sin" in Together in Song

Richard Massie

1800 - 1887 Topics: Confessing Faith; Death and Eternal Life; Heritage 16th-Century; Heritage Before 1500; Jesus Christ Resurrection of; Liberation; Salvation Translator (English) of "Christ Jesus Lay" in Voices Together Massie, Richard, eldest son of the Rev. R. Massie, of Goddington, Cheshire, and Rector of Eccleston, was born at Chester, June 18, 1800, and resides at Pulford Hall, Coddington. Mr. Massie published a translation of Martin Luther’s Spiritual Songs, London, 1854. His Lyra Domestica, 1st series, London, 1860, contains translations of the 1st Series of Spitta's Psalter und Harfe. In 1864 he published vol. ii., containing translations of Spitta's 2nd Series, together with an Appendix of translations of German hymns by various authors. He also contributed many translations of German hymns to Mercer's Church Psalter & Hymn Book; to Reid's British Herald; to the Day of Rest, &c. He died Mar. 11,1887. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Esther Hibbard

b. 1903 Topics: The Christian Life Love and Repentance; The Christian Life Confession, Mercy, Forgiveness; People of Faith Biblical Figures; Useful Musical Types Solos Translator of "Ah, What Shame I Have to Bear" in Hymns from the Four Winds Hibbard, Esther. (Tokyo, Japan, September 23, 1903). Her father was student secretary of the Y.M.C.A. in Tokyo until they returned to the U.S.A. in 1913 by train through Siberia. She did her undergraduate work at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, and earned her Master's degree in English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 1929, she served under the Congregational Mission Board in Japan for three years at the Doshaissha Christian High School for Girls. After this term of service, she decided to become a career missionary and taught at the Doshaissha College for Girls until 1941, when Americans were evacuated for the duration of World War II. She returned to the U.S., attending the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, to do doctoral work in Asian civilizations. She also taught conversational Japanese there in the Army Specialized Trainee's Program. In 1946, she returned to Japan where missionaries were warmly welcomed at the Doshaissha Junior College for Women, and in 1948 she became the first dean when that institution became a four-year Women's College of Liberal Arts. Upon her furlough in 1949, she resigned the position of dean, but returned as a professor until her retirement in 1968. She stayed in Japan to teach at the co-educational college, Tohoku Gakuin (Northeast College), affiliated with the Evangelical and Reformed Church. She retired from this position in 1973 and came to Claremont, California at Pilgrim Place, a retirement home associated with the United Church of Christ. She was a member of the U.C.C. since 1929. Besides her translations of Japanese hymns, she did research in Ulysses motifs in Japanese literature. --Phone conversation between Esther Hibbard and Mary Louise VanDyke, 19 September, 1992, DNAH Archives

Howard Slenk

b. 1931 Topics: Deliverance; Love God's Love to Us; Profession of Faith; Return of Christ; Advent; Afflictions; Confession of Sin; Deliverance; Grace; Humility; Lord's Supper; Love God's Love to Us; Ministry & Service; Profession of Faith; Return of Christ; Sanctification Harmonizer of "GENEVAN 25" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Howard J. Slenk (b. Holland, MI, 1931) received his undergraduate education from Calvin College and his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in Columbus; his dissertation was entitled The Huguenot Psalter in the Low Countries. He taught at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Illinois, and at Calvin College from 1967 until retiring in 1995. From 1970 to 1993 Slenk served as organist and director of music at Woodlawn Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids. His published works include A Well-Appointed Church Music (1960) and various articles on Genevan psalmody. Bert Polman

A. J. Abbey

1825 - 1887 Person Name: Alonzo J. Abbey Topics: Christian Activity; Aspirations For Grace; Aspirations For Holiness; Aspirations For the Holy Spirit; Assurance Desired; Christ Confessing; Christians Debt of; Christians Duties of; Christians Evangelists; Christians Graces of; Christians Saved by Grace; Deliverance From Sin; Faith Walking by; God Love and Mercy; Gospel Freeness of ; Gospel Preaching of; Gospel Prevalence and Power of; Gospel Sanctifying and Saving; Grace Restoring; Heart Broken and Contrite; Heart Claimed of God; Heart Good, Perfect, Pure and Upright; Holiness Of Christians; Humility; Mercy of God Prayer for; Offerings; Pardon Sought; Penitence; Praise For Work of Redemption; Prayer Confession in; Prayer For Grace and Salvation; Prayer For Pardon; Prayer For the Church; Prayer Intercession in; Repentance; Revival; Spritual Sacrifices; Sin Confession of; Sin Hatred of; Sin Salvation from; Thanksgiving For God's Mercies; Worship Acts of; Worship Sincerity in; Zion Kept by God Composer of "COOLING" in The Psalter Alonzo Judson Abbey, USA 1825-1887 Professor Abbey was a music teacher, collector, writer-composer, tune book compiler and sacred music publisher. George F Root often edited his published works. John Perry